Arizona weekly citizen., 1887-09-10
AN INDIAN BATTLE.
Graphic Story of San BernadIno Pioneer.

Graphic Story of a san BernadIno Pioneer
 Yesterday morning about dozen
 Molaye Indians came into the city from
 The Needles, and were around selling
 bows and arrows.
 They were standing in a crowd oppo- site the Bank of San Bernsrdino, when Frank Binkley came down the street, and seeing them, stopped "desd" in his tracks and began scowling at them. AD old resident of the city said to the rec porter: "If you will approach the man right be will give you an item that will be interesting, and something that will De copied all over the country" | The newsman was gwen to understand that BInkley had a long and terrible grudge against Indians of all kinds. and especially the ApschesaDd Moisves.
 He went up to Binkley and said: "Ex- cuse me. but you seem to be interested ID these long-hsired gentlemen"
 "InterestedT said, turning around ss h be had been stabbed in the back.
 Well l should say I am interested iD them. Lcok here, young fellow, do you see that hole in my face with no eye ID Il Kind, gave me that mark for hfe.'
 The reporter became interested him self nov, aud asked the rnan to tell him all about the circumstance.
 "Ifs a long story" said Ee, and one that l had promised myself never to tell to any newspaper, but you have come at me in such a darred polite kind of a way that beiogged i: don't tell youiust how the thing came about" He pulled out long plug of tobscco and began:
 You See I was in the mining and prospecting business in the years when the country was full of those kind of devlls: and they were about two to one with the white man. That was twenty years ago.
 "I had been out in the Black oafion for several weeks, which is about fifteen miles from the town of Prescott. Ariz,. and in my prospecting I came across what I considered 8 pay lead. went to Prescott and got some of lny friends and we started out to look the matter up more closely, and to work the lead ID case 1t showed up ss well ss l thought it would.
 "There was in the party Stewart Wall whom you all know as the Revenue Tax Collector, Sam Harris, B rnRn we called 'Scot,y,' Fred Hcarin and myself. "We had a pack train aud were on horseback. This, mind you, was only l9 years ago this fall The country Was alive with Indians. but they were the most cowardly set of brutes you ever saw.
 We knew that the fieDds were towards and counting on this We did not think that they would attack ns. Wecsme in- 10 camp at dusk on the first day out. and slept ID our blankets until about 4 o'clock the next morning. Day was just breaking, and all at once we were srous- ed by the most hideous and inhuman wells one could imagine.
 We all slept close by our guns, and DO sooner were ws awake than every man ready to fight. It was the intention of the Indians to stampede us and to either kill us outright. or capture all of our provisions. arms and animals.
 See this missing tooth. Well will tell you more about that hereafter Stewart Wall will verify every word l tell you.
 "As soon as we were thoroughly srCus- ed, we found our little party of five sur rounded with painted devils. and they were yelling like demons. The IndiaLs were, as 8 rule, armed with bows md arrows, but & number of them had muzzie loading rifles. We Lad shot guns and muzzle losders too.
 "I will tell you my side ot the story. You had better see Wall 0nd set bis version Well. the first thing remem- Der was a peculiar and not pleasant sn Indian with loug, strong bow had sent an arrow into my mouth, and ii had taken out the tooth that you see gOne.
 Here he again displayed the vacancy ID the mouth
 This made me hot. l knew I wss hurt, but did not know how badly. I grabbed up my shot gun. but it missed fire. Then 1 reached over and grabbed Old Betsy-wish you could see her, she's baby. The big IndIsn had dropped his arrows, and when he strengthened up 10 take another draw at me with hIs bow, I leveled the old girl on him, and for one tooth that he took from me 1 get four from him. He jumped right up in- to the ar, and when he came down there Egs g good Indian. Stewart had hid out another, sud at the same time got a slight wound ID the leg. We realized what kind of a hole we were in. and li.tls things like s bullet hole through us, just so as 1t left us able to use our arms, was excused. HearIn had 6 good shot gun and two revOlvers, and you ought to hsve seen that fellow use him self. Why, he had dead Indians all around him, and still his clothes were full of arrows, and the blood from bullets was running down his legs in perfect streams.
 "ThIs all sounds like a yslier-bsci novel story, but as 1 said. will meke an oath that the half IS not told, or lesve it all to Mir. Wall.
 "Scotty laid down behind a lot o' pRok-ssddles, and every time his snr cracked a redskin went to glory. l car tell you. young man, we had an experi epce that few men in the world ever gC through. .l
 Il counted, when we got leisure. 140 Indians. 4 good many ot them weTr not desd. but they were In tue couct inst the same. Fred HeRrin, whom l now believe is dead, got away with ten of the brutes, and only received one slight wound.
 Tn short time all of the rsds were | down m Iue IhNlnc huu Nc bckah " scatter and protect ourselves es best We could out on the open plain. A remnant | of the sayages had run our animals cfI. l and we saw that we were in fine pickle. AS I said before, we had to fight or dle, and you can bet your life we did fight.
 ''I can give you little idea what kind | of work was done, when I tell you that | Sam Harris was wounded in two places | and died in eight days from the dsy of the fight; that Scotty was riddled with | bullets and shot full of srrows, and | when the fight ended wss unable to | move. Fred Hesrin got hit once. but ve-y seriously. had my teeth knocked | out, lost this lief. eye, as you see, and | Stewart Wall was left on the ground l with seventeen wounds in his body.
 "At one time during the fight an h. dian began firing at Stewart with hIs gun, and missing him followed it up with his bow end poisoned srrows | Wall had just fired and had no tune to | load. He therefore had to run and try | .n hide. The Indian followed him, and 1 after shooting all of his arrows, he drew l his tomahBwk and struck it into the | back of Walls head. Hearin saw the | work. and having just reloaded while i